In last week’s Strib: Forest Lake school closes doors to vets, so students go to them. The National Heroes Tour, featuring decorated troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Northfield City Administrator Al Roder publishes a memo to the mayor and city council each week on Friday,w hich suummarizes many staff and department activities for the week. The Friday…
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) issued its Draft Statement on Human Sexuality earlier this month. Most of the interest in the Draft is related to its treatment of…
I saw some evidence of Red Hat Society action on the street today. Does anyone know these ladies, and whether or not they’re from Northfield? They told me that the…
Another week, another road trip.
Economic Development Manager Charlene Coulombe-Fiore and the EDA facilitated a field trip to Chaska, MN to talk with their City Administrator and other staff in charge of planning and development. Riding in a Care-Tenders van packed to maximum capacity were EDA members Rick Estenson, Dave Van Wylen, Victor Summa, Marty Benson; City Councilors Jim Pokorney and Scott Davis; Planning Commission members Ron Griffith and myself; and City staff Brian O’Connell, Joel Walinski, Charlene Coulombe-Fiore plus Kathy Felbrugge from the Northfield Chamber. Charlene prepared a comparison of the two communities, based on demographic and economic data, for our review before the trip.
There are many similarities between Northfield and Chaska in terms of size, history, relationship to the metro area, and other factors, as the above comparison demonstrates. There are significant differences, too, but I was interested in having the discussion because Chaska has managed to keep a consistent vision and approach to both planning and economic development for more than a decade, and it shows.
Our guest this week: Peter Dahlen, Chair of the Northfield Charter Commission, “the constitution of Northfield’s city government.” Tracy and I were the able co-hosts as Ross has beached himself…
There are several ways to get Locally Grown content. Feeds Main RSS feed (blog posts) Comments RSS feed Podcast feed (or subscribe through iTunes) Biweekly updates (blog headlines) via email…
Last week, NUY Executive Director Josh Hinnenkamp blogged an update on the drive to raise $10K to meet the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative’s (HCI) challenge grant for the Skateboard Coalition…
In last week’s paper, Northfield News Publisher and Editor Sam Gett’s announced a volunteer citizen-journalist panel called Team Watchdog in a column titled: Wanna be a watchdog? Join us. The…